Another crew of astronauts comes in contact with another hostile alien life form in “Stranded,” another blandly competent, thoroughly forgettable low-budget sci-fier assembled from the stray parts of other, better movies. Compared with the epic disaster that was “Battlefield Earth,” this latest effort from director Roger Christian feels fairly benign in its straightforward, uninspired execution, to the point where even our intrepid space explorers seem less concerned about surviving than ensuring the picture ends on time. Commercially, the film seems likely to live up to its title in simultaneous theatrical and VOD release.

A meteor shower causes severe damage to a lunar base, compromising the crew’s oxygen supply and introducing a nasty contaminating agent that promptly impregnates the lone female astronaut (Amy Matysio). After violently giving birth to an alien fetus that somehow slips away, she clashes with a jerky superior (Christian Slater), earns sympathy from her other two colleagues (Michael Thierrault, Brendan Fehr), and eventually comes face-to-face with her rapidly mutating moon-baby. But Ripley she ain’t, just as this murkily lit, scare-free cheapie is a far cry from “Alien.”